Access to care and medicines, burden of health care expenditures, and risk protection: results from the World Health Survey.

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Published in Health Policy on September 09, 2010

Authors

Anita K Wagner1, Amy Johnson Graves, Sheila K Reiss, Robert Lecates, Fang Zhang, Dennis Ross-Degnan

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA. awagner@hms.harvard.edu

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